Welfare reforms targeted at the sick and disabled won’t boost government coffers. In fact, spending on those who need support and investing in less conditional systems has a real financial return.
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The UK benefits system does not systematically cater for the basic household needs of healthy eating and domestic energy.
With stricter conditionality and sanctions, the new plan looks set to limit people’s access to benefits more than it improves their hopes of getting a job
New statistical analysis shows that ethnicity, migration background and discrimination increase a person’s risk of homelessness.
Widening access to free school meals would be an investment in England’s children.
Cuts to public spending do not actually result in efficiency savings because they cause more problems for people than they solve.
Affordability is a question of political and policy priorities. If we want a fair and adequate social security system, we cannot continue cutting the resources of those who already have the least.
Requiring low-paid, part-time workers to increase their hours or take on multiple jobs can have adverse physical and mental health impacts.
The scale of the ‘disability price tag’ means one-off payments will hardly make a dent for many households.
Poverty impacts your mental health as much as your daily life and your physical wellbeing.
Why the government’s main measure of poverty doesn’t tell us much about the lowest-income people.
Experts on poverty in Britain explain how destitution affects different groups of people and aspects of life.
The Way to Work scheme will increase the pressure of benefits sanctions, which is particularly damaging for women and mothers.
Evidence shows that benefits sanctions push people into worse jobs, with long term negative effects.
The temporary increase to benefits was a lifeline for families during the pandemic.
Being on universal credit affects people in more ways than just financial.
The end of the temporary uplift means many household budgets will no longer meet the minimum income standard.
Most would have preferred to at least have the option of choosing equivalent amounts of money instead
Internet access should be a basic human right.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second pandemic budget for the Conservatives.
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Research fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Social Work, University of York
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Emeritus Professor of Social Inclusion, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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LSE Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Associate, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), Loughborough University
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Research Assistant, Sustainable Housing & Urban Studies Unit, University of Salford
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent
